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Author elsslots
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#1 | Posted: 17 Aug 2023 04:29 | Edited by: elsslots 
I just started rewriting the site intros for Algeria, starting with Tassili n'Ajjer. Here my eye fell on the confusion about what is in the core zone and what isn't, as described in Zoë's review:
"One should also know that a) the core zone is not the entire park. It is only the marked rock painting/carving spots and a rather tiny rock forest near Djanet, which is still an impressive sight but pales compared to the natural beauty of the rest the park offers, especially the plateau in the east. b) the park according to Google map is only the rocky areas which doesn't include dunes and is even not stretching into the east. c) according to locals the park even includes Djanet and surrounding villages but I am not sure if that is true."

There is an official map, dating from 1982 so a bit basic but also clear in many aspects:
https://whc.unesco.org/document/100820

In contrast to Zoë, I do believe that the core zone covers the whole National Park. This is marked by the all-encompassing blue line on the map and its shape approximately is the same as that of the park as shown on Google Maps. The 2020 IUCN Outlook shows the same outline.
It also would make sense as it was inscribed under natural criteria as well (it's a mixed WHS). Of course, the rock art can just be found at certain locations, however, this is not a serial site but a contiguous area. There's a confusing polygon marked 'P.N.T' (Parc National) on the map in green, but I believe the P.N.T covers the whole area within the blue line.

How do others interpret this? Or maybe Zoë can tell how she came to conclusion A?

Author meltwaterfalls
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#2 | Posted: 17 Aug 2023 13:27 
I'm with you @els on the confusing polygon. The key suggests it is just the area "région au site riche en vistages" so where the rock art is concentrated.

But the blue outline is the area of the world heritage site.

Though I will admit I can see where the confusion arises

Author Solivagant
Partaker
#3 | Posted: 17 Aug 2023 15:10 | Edited by: Solivagant 
elsslots:
How do others interpret this?

The inscribed area is 7,200,000 ha- way bigger than the small green polygon.
Various Web sites (Wiki etc) state that the park - with maps the same as the UNESCO one - is of that size...

See this web page ...scroll down....
It intorduces a further "area" titled Parc Culturel du Tassili (Illizi) with a size of 13,330,000
Its map is shown here and is clearly larger than the previous area to a degree compatible with its larger area -
See here for its Wiki entry
138000 sq km...

But its a "mess" isn't it?? See https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tassili_n%27Ajjer_Cultural_Park
National Park..... Cultural Park....????.
Just the one thing we can be sure of is that the inscribed area is that within the Blue line on the UNESCO map.....

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